Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Nordschleife, Nurburgring, The Ring, The Green Hell…… it
goes by many names and to drive on its fabled tarmac is a necessary draw by all
petrolheads who hold this "racetrack" in the highest regards and
respect. In reality it’s just a German toll road, which like many others has no
speed limit, but this toll road just happens to follow the same route, albeit
tweaked here and there over the years, as the original Formula 1 track. So you
can take your car on the same tarmac as the legends such as Jackie Stewert,
Graham Hill and Jim Clark drove in anger.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Anyone who was into modified cars in the 80's and 90's knows the Zender
name and its mad, wide bodykits. I know of a Zender wide bodied mk2 Scirocco
that is just awesome. However they did try to make the transition from
modifying cars to building them, and where best to get into the industry at the
end of the 80's than the Supercar segment.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

It might be a bit quiet on here for the next week, the call of The Green
Hell has gotten too loud so tomorrow night I will be beginning my Europeon trip
from the UK to Germany and the iconic “toll” road. So be expecting lots of
pictures and a write up of my adventures.

Previously on here I did an article on the forgotten Lamborghini's and
this was one. First debuted at the Turin Motorshow in 1970 it was quiet a
departure for Lamborghini that had built high performance and highly priced
sports cars and GT cars. It was also a complete clean sheet design by Macello
Gandini, working for Bertone at the time, sharing no parts with the previous
cars. It was also smaller, with a nod to practicality with it being a 2+2 and
cheaper to buy. Revised tax laws and a need to fill spare capacity as well as
compete with a new fleet of smaller sports cars by Ferrari and Maserati, entry
level so to speak.

Monday, April 15, 2013

I first saw this very car below at the inaugural Indoor Classic Car Showin Manchester in 2011, unfortunately the poor lighting meant all my pictures
turned out rather fuzzy!!!! So just think of my delight when at a resent show
it turned up again, and what’s better the lighting was perfect. So here it is
the Lancia Flavia Sport, what caught my eye were those rear windows scooping up
into the roof line.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

When I first saw this at the recent “Passion for Power” car show I was
certain it was rare having never seen on and unusual after all it was a rear
engine BMW. But I didn’t realise how rare. The 700 was in production from 1958
to replace the Isetta as a 4 door family economy car. Nearly 260,000 were built until 1965 when BMW moved into the more lucrative luxury saloon market. However in its
last grasps of life and sat on an elongated chassis, a lightweight Coupe version was
produced from 1964.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Now in its 3rd year, this indoor show has come a long way (2011, 2012).
Now rebranded this classic car show now included for the cancelled
"passion for power" event from late last year. What this meant was
the usual classic car event with all the car clubs, traders and individual
showers, all up on numbers from last year, now joined by some classic and
modern day prestige machinery, by the likes of McLaren, Roll Royce,
Lamborghini and Ferrari.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

First off, I’m a big Formula 1 fan so it wasn’t going to be
long before I headed over to Donington Park to visit the largest collection of
F1 cars in the world. After all I’d driven past it enough times going to the racing
and events (Restoration Show). So with a day booked off I made the 200 mile round
trip to indulge!!!

Now a little history, Donington Park race circuit has F1
credential with it being used previously, most recently in 1993, for the European
Grand Prix. It was even touted very recently with construction work started to
replace Silverstone as the permanent home for F1 on these shores, though it all
fell through in the end. So it’s easy to say that this is one of the best
circuits in the British and a deserving home for the collection.